The story
- Old English · inherited frombisċophād“the office or state of a bishop; the episcopate”
- Middle English · inherited frombischophood
- English todaybishophood
From Middle English bischophood, bishophod, bischophad, from Old English bisċophād (“the office or state of a bishop; the episcopate”), equivalent to bishop + -hood.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.